Twitter has been a hot spot this year for worm, spam and phishing attacks, with the Mikeyy worm,and many other attacks hitting their site. The recent worm attack on Twitter is a virus that is spreading via a Twitter message claiming to be an invite from your friends and asking you to check your attachments.The attachment contains the Ackantta.B worm which is capable of taking over any machine it infects.

When it’s installed it immediately searches for any email contacts and sends itself to them, and sends your IP address to its botnet and prepares your PC for even more malware downloads.

This latest worm is not expected to spread very rapidly , due to the fact that many people are wary of opening their attachments, unless it is from a reliable source, plus many ISP’s do scan or block zip files.

Do follow the below tips and you can be safe:

1.dont follow people who follow you (check their profiles first)
2.don’t click on URLs in Tweets from people you don’t absolutely trust
3.protect your tweets so only people you approve can see them.

Go ahead and enjoy Tweeting..